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Melanie Jame Wolf:
The Creep

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Melanie Jame Wolf:
The Creep
Performance

Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 7–8

Full exhibition at Feldfünf
17.12.2022 – 30.12.2022
12:30 h – 18:00 h

Window exhibition at Feldfünf
31.12.2022 – 07.01.2023

Exhibition Opening at Feldfünf
17.12.2022 // 14:00 h – 19:00 h

To creep is to move quietly, with stealth, to avoid detection. A creep is a person who produces feelings of discomfort and fear in others. Creeps creep. Their violence is experienced as affect – felt rather than seen – it is hard to quantify and therefore hard to prove, sometimes even hard to believe. People creep. So can institutions. Time creeps. So can pleasure.

The Creep at feldfünf is the first in a series of installations by Berlin based choreographer and visual artist, Melanie Jame Wolf, in which she will enact her ongoing creep studies. It is a choreography between 2 figures - a cowboy and a mountain – embodying a poetic meditation on violence and storytelling. Departing from Walter Benjamin's concept of 'mythic violence' - in which fascist power and authority are accumulated by performing itself as ancient truth – The Creep studies the invisible and the insidious; forced silences, double meanings, and omissions; the weird and the eerie.

The installation continues Wolf's formal exploration of the expanded choreographic possibilities of fabric, video and printed text, whilst introducing new sculptural developments in her practice. It will be activated with two episodes of live performance across the opening weekend of the exhibition.

Concept, direction, text, installation, performance Melanie Jame Wolf Sound design Mars Dietz Costume design Nicolas Navarro Rueda Visual dramaturgy Yoav Admoni
Performance dramaturgy Louise Trueheart Cinematography Ashton Green Graphic design Sam Smith

A production of Melanie Jame Wolf in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR. Hilfsprogramm Tanz.

Melanie Jame Wolf is a visual artist and choreographer who lives in Berlin. She works solo and with friends, making interdisciplinary pieces about power, flows of capital, and the phenomenon of “show business.” She examines these economies and entanglements in works for gallery, theater, and screen spaces. Approaching installation and moving image as an expanded choreographic practice, she is invested in humor as a strategy for critical possibility and in working with language in subliminal and surprising ways.

Her work has shown at HAU - Hebbel am Ufer; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, nGbK, The National 2019: New Australian Art Biennial, Festival of Live Art Melbourne, VAEFF Film Festival NYC, Arts Santa Monica Barcelona, Schwules Museum, Sophiensaele, Münchner Kammerspiele, Arts House Melbourne; KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Basel - Gegenwart, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kunstmuseum Basel, Kasseler Dokfest & Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. Melanie Jame was one of 8 nominees for the Berlin Art Prize 2022. savage-amusement.com

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© Ashton Green
Ort: feldfünf
Ort: feldfünf